--- title: Whitney Cummings I Love You Comedy Central Special Interview description: The comedian's new stand-up special premieres June 28 on Comedy Central canonical: https://time.com/2927834/whitney-cummings-crazy-is-the-new-c-word/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-27T10:00:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:39:05.931Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Whitney Cummings I Love You Comedy Central Special Interview og:description: The comedian's new stand-up special premieres June 28 on Comedy Central og:url: https://time.com/2927834/whitney-cummings-crazy-is-the-new-c-word/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99223f084d46f02c/6986997a1eebf7e2d03719f3/whitney_cummings_iloveyou_still51_cc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Whitney Cummings og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Whitney Cummings I Love You Comedy Central Special Interview twitter:description: The comedian's new stand-up special premieres June 28 on Comedy Central twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99223f084d46f02c/6986997a1eebf7e2d03719f3/whitney_cummings_iloveyou_still51_cc.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Whitney Cummings: "Crazy" Is the "New C-Word"  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 27, 2014 10:00 AM UTC  Comedy Central  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 27, 2014 10:00 AM UTC The fictional characters created by comedian Whitney Cummings — whether on CBS’s _2 Broke Girls_ or NBC’s _Whitney_ — tend to struggle when it comes to love. But the real-life Cummings is eager to say “I love you,” at least in the title of her new one-hour stand-up special, which premieres June 28 on Comedy Central. Here, she talks to TIME about the special, her changing attitudes toward marriage, why she thinks feminism has won and how women being called “crazy” inspired her work: --- > “” --- The digital album of Cummings’ special is available July 1. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2927834/whitney-cummings-crazy-is-the-new-c-word/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2927834/whitney-cummings-crazy-is-the-new-c-word/"},"headline":"Whitney Cummings: \"Crazy\" Is the \"New C-Word\"","datePublished":"2014-06-27T10:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:39:05.931Z","description":"The comedian's new stand-up special premieres June 28 on Comedy Central","url":"https://time.com/2927834/whitney-cummings-crazy-is-the-new-c-word/","keywords":["feminism","women","Television","gender","Comedy","Q&A","comedy central"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99223f084d46f02c/6986997a1eebf7e2d03719f3/whitney_cummings_iloveyou_still51_cc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99223f084d46f02c/6986997a1eebf7e2d03719f3/whitney_cummings_iloveyou_still51_cc.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Whitney Cummings","caption":"Whitney Cummings","creditText":"Comedy Central","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2927834/whitney-cummings-crazy-is-the-new-c-word/","name":"Whitney Cummings: \"Crazy\" Is the \"New C-Word\""}}]}] ```